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 WILLIAMSRevolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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!
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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