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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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