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 WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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