Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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