Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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