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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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