And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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