I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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