“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
— Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee Williams
Category: life
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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.”
— Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee Williams
Category: life
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“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
— Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee Williams
Category: failure
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“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: success
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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: alone
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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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: life
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“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: death
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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
— Tennessee Williams
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“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: god
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“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: music
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“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: life
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Category: nature
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