It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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