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!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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