Tennessee Williams about "Streetcar named desire" and Blanche Dubois...

Tennessee Williams: Memoirs
Chapter 8 Page 130-131

 (...) We had come to the Cape too early for ocean bathing, it was still icy cold. But i continued work on streetcar and it was in that cabin that I thought of the exit line for Blanche, which later became somewhat historical: "I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers."


Actually it was true, I always had, and without being often disappointed. In fact, I would guess that chance acquaintances, or strangers, have usually been kinder to me than friends -which does not speak too well for me. To know me is not to love me. At, best, it is to tolerate me, and the drama critics I would say that tolerance seem now to be just about worn out.






  

Loneliness. Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (page 99)

"(..) let me say, now, that he relieved me, during that period, of my greatest affliction, which is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like my shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights... "


Tennessee Williams: Memoirs

Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (page 92)

 "After the success of Menagerie, as I've said before, I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance. Also, I had spent so much of my energy on the climb of success, that when I had "made it" and my play was "the hottest ticket in town", I felt almost no satisfaction." Page 92. Chapter 6