You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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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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