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 WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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