I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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