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 WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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