Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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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!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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