Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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 lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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