Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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