America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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 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 name of a person you love is more than language.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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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