Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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