The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. Tennessee Williams More Quotes by Tennessee Williams More Quotes From Tennessee Williams When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. Tennessee Williams cubicles dont-change flesh I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together Tennessee Williams childhood dolls together Some things are not forgiveable. 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. Tennessee Williams cruelty guilty opinion You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. Tennessee Williams granted want Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. Tennessee Williams prisoner duration cells How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. Tennessee Williams broken beautiful beauty I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! Tennessee Williams magic giving people Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles. Tennessee Williams cycling home father The mountain violets break the rocks. Tennessee Williams mountain rocks strength What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken? Tennessee Williams descending broken earth There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship. Tennessee Williams goes-on writing world The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Tennessee Williams pieces glasses cities Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live! Tennessee Williams advice giving people I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know. Tennessee Williams stories play drama Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! Tennessee Williams coke doe honey Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones! Tennessee Williams half would-be world Young, gifted, and destitute. Tennessee Williams destitute gifted young Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. Tennessee Williams pockets genius people All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be. Tennessee Williams hilarious girl funny But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary Tennessee Williams spirit men thinking
