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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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