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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in [insert place] when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? Tennessee Williams
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to..."
As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy? Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the..."
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!"
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Everybody is nothing until you love them."
Everybody is nothing until you love them. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by..."
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over. Tennessee Williams
Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early -almost before you're half acquainted with life -you meet the other... Tennessee Williams
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. Tennessee Williams
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. Tennessee Williams
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that..."
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? Tennessee Williams

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