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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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