Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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