The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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