All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: 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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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