Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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What 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.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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