The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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