I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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