A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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