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 WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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