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 WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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