The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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