--- title: "4 Block Quotes By Tennessee Williams" description: "4 Block quotes by Tennessee Williams. Plus more from Tennessee Williams and more Block sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/tennessee-williams-745_alphabet_somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-a_1021535.png" --- > [Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-all-of-us-children-in-a-vast/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/tennessee-williams-745_alphabet_somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-a_1021535.png) > [I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-think-no-more-than-a-week-after-i-started-writing-i-ran-into-the/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/tennessee-williams-745_block_i-think-no-more-than-a-week-after-i-star_1819631.png) > [They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/they-told-me-to-take-a-streetcar-named-desire-and-then-transfer-to/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f4/tennessee-williams-745_block_they-told-me-to-take-a-streetcar-named-d_2848167.png) > [And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/and-it-was-about-then-about-that-time-that-i-began-to-find-life/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/tennessee-williams-745_artist_and-it-was-about-then-about-that-time-th_3218920.jpg) ## Other authors on Block ## More by Tennessee Williams > [“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/nothing-human-disgusts-me-unless-its-unkind/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/these-are-the-intensities-that-one-cannot-live-with-that-he-has-to/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/well-you-better-look-out-they-got-a-new-bureau-in-the-guvamint-files/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/people-go-to-the-movies-instead-of-moving-hollywood-characters-are/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/they-chatter-together-like-birds-on-cypress-hill-but-all-they-say-is/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/you-take-it-for-granted-that-i-am-in-something-that-i-want-to-get-out/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [Guessing isn't knowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/guessing-isn-t-knowing/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-respect-a-person-that-has-had-to-fight-and-howl-for-his-decency/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/life-is-all-memory-except-for-the-one-present-moment-that-goes-by-you/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/most-of-the-confidence-which-i-appear-to-feel-especially-when/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-cannot-write-any-sort-of-story-unless-there-is-at-least-one/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-know-so-well-what-becomes-of-unmarried-women-who-aren-t-prepared-to/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [“The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/the-jefferson-is-such-a-dignified-hotel-there-is-no-such-thing/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/a-drinking-man-s-someone-who-wants-to-forget-he-isn-t-still-young-and/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) > [“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/as-for-me-no-one-will-ever-love-me-but-you-could-get-used-to-me/) [Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/block/tennessee-williams/#itemlist", "name": "4 Block Quotes By Tennessee Williams", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tennessee Williams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-all-of-us-children-in-a-vast/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/tennessee-williams-745_alphabet_somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-a_1021535.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/tennessee-williams-745_alphabet_somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-a_1021535.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/tennessee-williams-745_alphabet_somebody-said-once-or-wrote-once-we-re-a_1021535.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's…” — Tennessee Williams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. 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