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!”
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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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