There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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