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 WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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