Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tennessee Williams


1. ”Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.”
2. “If the writing is honest it cannot be separated form the man who wrote it.”
3. “It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.”
4. ”Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.”
5. “Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
6. “Make Voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”
7. “Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...”
8. “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.”
9. ”Time is the longest distance between two places.”
10. “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.”
11. "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"
12. “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
13. “When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I am writing.”
14. "You said 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.'"