Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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And 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.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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