Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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