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 WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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