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 WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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