Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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