If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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