Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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