Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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