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.
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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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That 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.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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