I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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It 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.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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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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