The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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