We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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 only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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