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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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