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 WILLIAMSSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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