The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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 only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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