For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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