Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Guessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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