And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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