Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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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 object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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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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