We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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