Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS