Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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 “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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