Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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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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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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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