There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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?
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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