The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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