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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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