The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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