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 WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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