A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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