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 WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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