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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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