Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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!
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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