Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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