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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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