Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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