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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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