The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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