We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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