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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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 Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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