Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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