Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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