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 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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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