Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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