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.
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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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 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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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