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 WILLIAMSIt’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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