We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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 have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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