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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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 are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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