The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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