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 WILLIAMSIt is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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