Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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