A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam 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!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private 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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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It 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.
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