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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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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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.
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