There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Blanche: 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!
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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It’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.
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