All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhomever 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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