It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Tennessee Williams

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It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody.

Tennessee Williams


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you love your people but you don’t understand them. They find God in each other. And when they lose each other, they lose God and they’re lost. And it’s hard to help them

Tennessee Williams


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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? 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! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

Tennessee Williams

Tags: adventure hollywood movies movement audience passivity activity watching vicarious-doings spectators vicarious-experience



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You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Tennessee Williams

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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

Tennessee Williams

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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

Tennessee Williams

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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

Tennessee Williams


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El objetivo de su vida, desde su
adolescencia, es el placer con las mujeres, que da y recibe, no con indulgente ligereza sino con el
orgulloso poder de un gallo de buen plumaje en un corral de gallinas. De esta satisfecha plenitud
derivan todos los cardes secundarios de su vida: amistad con los hombres, humor rudo y directo,
amor a la buena mesa y a la buena bebida, al juego, a su coche, a su radio, a todo cuanto posee y
lleva por ello la impronta orgulloso del sembrador. Valora las mujeres al primer vistazo, las
clasifica sexualmente y les dedica la sonrisa justa.

Tennessee Williams

Tags: vida mujeres placer



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The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.

Tennessee Williams

Tags: suffering fire desperation poetic-truth



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