The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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