You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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