Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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