Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 6

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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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• I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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  Taken, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, 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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• 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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• 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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• Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

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  Giving Up, World, Resistance

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

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  Way, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

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  Believe, Self, Doubt

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler (2002). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945”, p.341, New Directions Publishing

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• People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

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  Moving, Adventure, Character

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.47, Heinemann

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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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• In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

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  Character, Simplicity, Humans

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

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  Patience, Lonely, Hurt

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

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  People, Radical Change, Spirit

  Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.15, Yale University Press

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