Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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