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 WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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