The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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