We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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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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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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