It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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