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!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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