Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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