Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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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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I 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.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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