America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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!
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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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.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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