The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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