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.
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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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 strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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 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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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