There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey 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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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