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“I am sitting at my kitchen table waiting for my lover to arrive with lettuce and tomatoes and rum and sherry wine and a big floury loaf of bread in the fading sunlight. Coffee is percolating gently, and my mood is mellow. I have been very happy lately, just wallowing in it selfishly, knowing it will not last very long, which is all the more reason to enjoy it now. I suppose life always ends badly for almost everybody. We must have long fingers and catch at whatever we can while it is passing near us.”

Love Life Happiness Letters Bittersweet Tennessee Williams

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog”

Home Identity Tennessee Williams

Author:James Grissom

“I like to see the people arriving. I like to imagine their lives. It keeps me from thinking too much about my own. A man shouldn't be too introspective. It weakens him. That is the difference between Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway. I'm a Hemingway man myself although I don't believe it is right to hunt lions.”

Thinking Life Hunting Introspection Lives Ernest Hemingway Tennessee Williams

Book:The World and Other Places: Stories

Source: The World and Other Places: Stories

“And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!”

Love Romance Tennessee Williams Blanche Dubois A Streetcar Named Desire

Author:Tennessee Williams

“[Tennessee] William's writing has the effect that all great writing has on an actor. It steadies you. It emboldens you You ride an elevator to the top floor of a building, you jump off the penthouse balcony, and you fly. Just put one foot in front of the other, one line after the other, one moment after the other, and you are walking on air. It was the creative experience of a lifetime. (playing Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire)”

Peak Experiences Tennessee Williams Streetcar

Book:Nevertheless

Source: Nevertheless

“Carlos leek altijd over zijn toeren, alsof hij net een stuk of vijf benzedrinetabletten had geslikt. Je kon zijn aandacht niet langer dan één minuut op hetzelfde gericht houden. Van een mening over een stuk van Tennessee Williams sprong hij over op de decorontwerpen van een of andere Fransman, een opname van Sarah Bernhardt die hij op de Universidad had gehoord, een stuk dat een student had geschreven en waarvoor hij overwoog de regering om subsidie te vragen, zodat het kon worden gespeeld. Meeslepend, dat wel, maar niet erg bevredigend. En kon uit al die opwinding kunst voortkomen? Was kunst niet – bijna altijd – emotie die in alle rust tot bespiegeling wordt verheven? Ook voor een zuiderling? Theodore moest lachen om zijn eigen vurige ernst.”

Kunst Tennessee Williams Sarah Bernhardt Emotie Toneelstuk Decorontwerp

Book:A Game for the Living

Source: A Game for the Living

“Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's--hate....”

Love Play Hate Summer Last Suddenly Tennessee Williams

Book:Suddenly Last Summer

Source: Suddenly Last Summer