Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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