It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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