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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It 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.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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