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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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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. Tennessee Williams
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of... Tennessee Williams
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. 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. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that... Tennessee Williams
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? Tennessee Williams
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..[she smiles to herself]Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.. Tennessee Williams
I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "To be free is to have achieved your life."
To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded. Tennessee Williams
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. Tennessee Williams
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. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living..."
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you. Tennessee Williams
But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and laxities that Success... Tennessee Williams
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for..."
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The name of a person you love is more than language."
The name of a person you love is more than language. Tennessee Williams

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