To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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 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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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!”
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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