Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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