Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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