There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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 scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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