The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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