Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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