I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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