Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHe gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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