Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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