Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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William 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!”
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