The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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