Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Don’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?
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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