Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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