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!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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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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