Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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