The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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