We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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