Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 2

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

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  Vanity, Glasses, Competition

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Everybody is nothing until you love them.

  Tennessee Williams

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

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  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

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  Memorial Day, Freedom, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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  Magic, Fleeting, Eternity

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

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  Prayer, Heart, Cages

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.162, New Directions Publishing

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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. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

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  Magic, Want, Might

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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. 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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  Hate, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

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  Love You, Someone You Love, Ifs

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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  Success, Congratulations, Failure

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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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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  Strong, Character, Hysteria

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

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  Ego, Vision, Flaws

  "The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957".

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• I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

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  Too Much, Visiting, Gave Up

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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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  Shadow, Giants, Three

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.17, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Luck is believing you're lucky.

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  Believe, Good Luck, Luck

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• The helpless can't help the helpless.

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  Weakness, Helping, Helpless

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

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  Writing, Reality, Age

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.7, Heinemann

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• But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

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  Dark, Men, Happens

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Inspirational, Change, Graduation

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

  Camino Real block 8 (1953)

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• Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

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  Friendship, Doe, Separation

  "Memoirs".

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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  Time, Nature, Flower

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

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  Angel, Might, Demon

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• Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

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  New Orleans, Hands, Long

  "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts".

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