We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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