Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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