You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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