Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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