Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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