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 WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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