They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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