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 WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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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?
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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