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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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That 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.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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