America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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