And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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