I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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