Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMake voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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