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 WILLIAMSWhomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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