You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with 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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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