The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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