Everybody is nothing until you love them.
Tennessee WilliamsHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee WilliamsWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee WilliamsDon't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee WilliamsI don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
Tennessee WilliamsThe 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. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")
Tennessee WilliamsBut nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")
Tennessee WilliamsTags: past memory aging-well legends
This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that romantically practical Teuton who used to murmur to Pablo, between sleeping and waking, a sort of incantation that went like his: Sometimes you will find it and other times you won't find it and the times you don't find it are the times when you have got to be careful. Those are the times when you have got to remember that other times you will find it, not this time but the next time, or the time after that, and then you've got to be able to go home without it, yes, those times are the times when you have got to be able to go home without it, go home alone without it...
Tennessee WilliamsFriends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
Tennessee WilliamsBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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