How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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