To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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