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 WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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