Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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 WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS