All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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