The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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