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 WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Whomever 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?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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