I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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 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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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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We 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!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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