I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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