Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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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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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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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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