Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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