Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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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?
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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