We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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