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 WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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?
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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