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 WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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