Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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