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 WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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