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 WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Whomever 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?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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