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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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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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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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