Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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