The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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 believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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