Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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