When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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