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 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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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