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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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