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 WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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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 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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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