Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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