Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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