We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without 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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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