Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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