How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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To be free is to have achieved your 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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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