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 WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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