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• And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

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  Block, Writing, Artist

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Hawthorne, Bunch, Reverence

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

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  Character, Play, Theatre

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Failure, Night, Typewriters

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• Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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  Color, Revolution, Bright Colors

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.129, New Directions Publishing

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• Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

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  Opinion, Guilty, Cruelty

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• You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

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  Regret, Past, Men

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

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  Hands, Unseen, World

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

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  Believe, Long, Silence

  Tennessee Williams (1959). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

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  Funeral, Blanche

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

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  Beautiful, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer”

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• attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

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  Space, Lost, Menagerie

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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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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  Writing, Alive, Posthumous

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• There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

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  Soul, Aristocracy, Passionate

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.83, New Directions Publishing

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• I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

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  Time, Thinking, Fire

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• I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

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  Gay, Thinking, Lgbt

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• The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

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  Death, Animal, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

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  Cages, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Maggie

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955)

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• I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

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  Life, Want, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Art, Taken, Play

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

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  World, Paper, Way

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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  God, Meaningful, Work

  "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams". Volume II,

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• I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

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  Voice, Bats, Littles

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• Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

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  Animal, Pigs, Monkeys

  Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner (2011). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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