Tennessee Williams Quotes about Desire

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I don't want realism. I want magic!

Tennessee Williams

Magic, Desire, Want

A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

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

Block, Desire, Fields

A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 1 (1947)

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

Tennessee Williams

Desire, Want, Loser

Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.4, New Directions Publishing