Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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