Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
