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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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