All good art is an indiscretion.
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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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