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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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!”
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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