William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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