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A Streetcar Named Desire

(New Directions Paperbook)

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play―reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short l

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Tennessee Williams (9)

“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Yourself, Just Be Yourself, admiration

“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: romance, Cute Things To Say To Her

“I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: calm, Breath, Life, Quiet, Rest

“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams

“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

Tagged: Tennessee Williams