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16149. “Somebody said once or wrote, once: ‘We’re all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God’s name with the wrong alphabet blocks!” ― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer April 17, 2020

16148. “The name of a person you love is more than language.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16147. “I’ll be all right in a minute, I’m just bewildered – by life…” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16146. “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 light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16145. “The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16144. “Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16143. “It’s like a switch, clickin’ off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there’s peace.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16142. “I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters, Vol. 1: 1920-1945 April 17, 2020

16141. “When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16140. “My only point, the only point that I’m making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is–all–over….” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16139. “Attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16138. “I 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 Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16137. “I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. – Blanche Scene II” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16136. “A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16135. “The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.” ― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer April 17, 2020

16134. “But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem — unimportant.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16133. “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.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16132. “The future is called “perhaps”, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.” ― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending April 17, 2020

16131. “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16130. “Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart…” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16129. “We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16128. “I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16127. “Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16126. “We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16125. “She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16124. “They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16123. “Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16122. “Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16121. “I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16120. “And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16119. “Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore April 17, 2020

16118. “For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura — and so goodbye. . . .” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16117. “People go to the movies instead of moving.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16116. “I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16115 .“Mendacity is a system that we live in,” declares Brick. “Liquor is one way out and death’s the other.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16114. “Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16113. “Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16112. “Success and failure are equally disastrous.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16111.“Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.” ― Tennessee Williams, Collected Stories April 17, 2020

16110. “Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16109. “Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.” ― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16108.“Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16107. “All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16106. “What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?” ― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending April 17, 2020

16105. “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.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16104. “Everybody is nothing until you love them.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo April 17, 2020

16103. “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16102. “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, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16101. “Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16100. “I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16099. “What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can…” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020

16098.“Every time you come in yelling that God damn “Rise and Shine!” “Rise and Shine!” I say to myself, “How lucky dead people are!” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020

16097.“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16096. “Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020

16095. “When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.” ― Bessie Smith April 17, 2020

16094. “I don’t want no drummer. I set the tempo.” ― Bessie Smith April 17, 2020

16093. “The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.” ― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story April 17, 2020

16092. “People might think folks in the South are nosey. Folks in the South don’t ask questions to learn something; they ask to find out what you know. If you act like you don’t know much, they will tell you everything they know. If you talk like you know a lot, they think you’re just showing off, and they’ll walk off and leave you, because they don’t want to listen to you.” ― Bill Peach April 17, 2020

16091.“…and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her…” ― Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard April 17, 2020

16090. “I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.” ― Wallace Stevens April 17, 2020

16089. “It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020

16088. “Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.” ― Kellie Elmore April 17, 2020

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