Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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