For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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