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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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 Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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