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 WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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