The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The 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.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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