Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS