The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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