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 WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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 only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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