Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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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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