I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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