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 WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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