All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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