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 WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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