Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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