I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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