Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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