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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. -- Tennessee Williams
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It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature -- Tennessee Williams
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die. -- Tennessee Williams
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking. -- Tennessee Williams
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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't believe in villains or heroes
only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. -- Tennessee Williams
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You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished ... -- Tennessee Williams
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. -- Tennessee Williams
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All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. -- Tennessee Williams
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm! -- Tennessee Williams
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it. -- Tennessee Williams
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There are no "good" or "bad" people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. -- Tennessee Williams
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. -- Tennessee Williams
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I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. -- Tennessee Williams
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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? -- Tennessee Williams
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland. -- Tennessee Williams
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I suppose 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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears. -- Tennessee Williams
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy. -- Tennessee Williams
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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! -- Tennessee Williams
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! -- Tennessee Williams
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In memory, everything seems to happen to music. -- Tennessee Williams
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I have met a great many people, nearly all friendly, many of whom I was fairly intimate with in one way of another, but nobody has seemed as close to me in spirit as you are. That was why I thought only of you at those times when my life seemed in danger of falling to pieces. -- Tennessee Williams
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles. -- Tennessee Williams
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What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.

- Big Daddy -- Tennessee Williams
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You love your people but you don't understand them. They find God in each other. And when they lose each other, they lose God and they're lost. And it's hard to help them -- Tennessee Williams
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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. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. -- Tennessee Williams
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. -- Tennessee Williams
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You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. -- Tennessee Williams
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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? -- Tennessee Williams
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down ... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function! -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken? -- Tennessee Williams
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter. -- Tennessee Williams
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When I had that attack of pleurosis - he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I said pleurosis - he thought that I said Blue Roses! So that's what he always called me after that. Whenever he saw me, he'd holler, Hello, Blue Roses! -- Tennessee Williams
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I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her - babbling!! -- Tennessee Williams
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. -- Tennessee Williams
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Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. -- Tennessee Williams
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Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true? -- Tennessee Williams
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. -- Tennessee Williams
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And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before! -- Tennessee Williams
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you. -- Tennessee Williams
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It's interesting, isn't it? ... the chandelier ... it reminds me of mushroom soup. -- Tennessee Williams
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Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to ... -- Tennessee Williams
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. -- Tennessee Williams
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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! -- Tennessee Williams
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type. -- Tennessee Williams
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I soon found myself becoming indifferent to people. A well cynicism rose in me. Conversations all sounded as if they had been recorded years ago and were being played back on a turntable. -- Tennessee Williams
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Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. 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. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic. -- Tennessee Williams
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You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. -- Tennessee Williams
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My greatest affliction ... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights. -- Tennessee Williams
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Luck is believing your lucky. -- Tennessee Williams
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats. -- Tennessee Williams
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! -- Tennessee Williams
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me ... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'm not good. I don't know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody's good. -- Tennessee Williams
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Revolution begins in putting on bright colors. -- Tennessee Williams
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I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance. -- Tennessee Williams
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All good art is an indiscretion. -- Tennessee Williams
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. -- Tennessee Williams
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You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!
and death was the only icebox where you could keep it ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. -- Tennessee Williams
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Attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. -- Tennessee Williams
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Life is such a mysteriously complicated thing that no one should really presume to judge and condemn the behavior of anyone else. -- Tennessee Williams
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II -- Tennessee Williams
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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. -- Tennessee Williams
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. -- Tennessee Williams
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. -- Tennessee Williams
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I am more faithful than I intended to be! -- Tennessee Williams
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Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart... -- Tennessee Williams
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me. -- Tennessee Williams
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of. -- Tennessee Williams
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Let's go down and swim in that liquid moonlight. -- Tennessee Williams
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One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true! -- Tennessee Williams
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones! -- Tennessee Williams
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The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing. -- Tennessee Williams
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It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. -- Tennessee Williams
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light ... -- Tennessee Williams
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft. -- Tennessee Williams
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If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. -- Tennessee Williams
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He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside -- Tennessee Williams
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Nature is not on the side of a girl over thirty -- Tennessee Williams
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Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves. -- Tennessee Williams
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. -- Tennessee Williams
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Young, gifted, and destitute... -- Tennessee Williams
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My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is
all
over ... -- Tennessee Williams
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. -- Tennessee Williams
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be. -- Tennessee Williams
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. -- Tennessee Williams
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But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark
that sort of make everything else seem
unimportant. -- Tennessee Williams
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance. -- Tennessee Williams
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. -- Tennessee Williams
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Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! -- Tennessee Williams
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. -- Tennessee Williams
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Of coherency, I usually attempt it. -- Tennessee Williams
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As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy? -- Tennessee Williams
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. -- Tennessee Williams
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than
broken down. -- Tennessee Williams
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. -- Tennessee Williams
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Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door. -- Tennessee Williams
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. -- Tennessee Williams
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Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? -- Tennessee Williams
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I talk out the lines as I write them. -- Tennessee Williams
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[Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.] -- Tennessee Williams
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Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost. -- Tennessee Williams
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life ... -- Tennessee Williams
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The name of a person you love is more than language. -- Tennessee Williams
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Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me. -- Tennessee Williams
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Sometimes - there's God - so quickly! -- Tennessee Williams
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If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else? -- Tennessee Williams
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There is only one true aristocracy ... and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! -- Tennessee Williams
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Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level. -- Tennessee Williams
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Big Daddy: Ignorance - of morality - is a comfort. -- Tennessee Williams
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! -- Tennessee Williams
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too. -- Tennessee Williams
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Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind -- Tennessee Williams
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That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a big fire-sale, the whole rutten thing. -- Tennessee Williams
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There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. -- Tennessee Williams
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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back. -- Tennessee Williams
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Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live! -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces. -- Tennessee Williams
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Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure. -- Tennessee Williams
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Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy") -- Tennessee Williams
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Just another four-letter word. -- Tennessee Williams
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The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness. -- Tennessee Williams
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When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. -- Tennessee Williams
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Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ... -- Tennessee Williams
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level. -- Tennessee Williams
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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! -- Tennessee Williams
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really? -- Tennessee Williams
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I've never cared whether I shock people because I think people shocked by the truth are not deserving of the truth. The truth is something one has to deserve -- Tennessee Williams
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Luck is believing you're lucky. -- Tennessee Williams
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. -- Tennessee Williams
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When I was sixteen, I made the discovery
love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. -- Tennessee Williams
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? -- Tennessee Williams
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The carrion birds have tried to peck out my eyes and my tongue and my mind, but they've never been able to get at my heart. -- Tennessee Williams
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. -- Tennessee Williams
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. -- Tennessee Williams
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think. -- Tennessee Williams
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The helpless can't help the helpless. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. -- Tennessee Williams
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. -- Tennessee Williams
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To you, whoever you are, when I am gone - remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me. -- Tennessee Williams
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. -- Tennessee Williams
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Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change. -- Tennessee Williams
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. -- Tennessee Williams
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. -- Tennessee Williams
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. -- Tennessee Williams
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Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. -- Tennessee Williams
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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. -- Tennessee Williams
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I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together -- Tennessee Williams
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You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are! -- Tennessee Williams
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I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion. -- Tennessee Williams
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Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many! -- Tennessee Williams
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Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love.. -- Tennessee Williams
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The mountain violets break the rocks. -- Tennessee Williams
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing. -- Tennessee Williams
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you. -- Tennessee Williams
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. -- Tennessee Williams
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. -- Tennessee Williams
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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real. -- Tennessee Williams
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It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it. -- Tennessee Williams
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...the human animal is a selfish beast... -- Tennessee Williams
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Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego. -- Tennessee Williams
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Well, sooner or later, at some point in your life, the thing that you lived for is lost or abandoned, and then ... you die, or find something else. -- Tennessee Williams
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This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky. -- Tennessee Williams
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You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God! -- Tennessee Williams
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. -- Tennessee Williams
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A man like that is someone to go out with - once - twice - three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by? -- Tennessee Williams
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The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life. -- Tennessee Williams
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I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. -- Tennessee Williams
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -- Tennessee Williams
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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give. -- Tennessee Williams
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Everything diminishes with time, my darling, but my feelings for certain people pierce me daily, and it is no illusion that they center me and let me know who I am, and let me know that I have loved and have been loved, no matter how badly or clumsily. -- Tennessee Williams
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Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more! -- Tennessee Williams
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. -- Tennessee Williams
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To be free is to have achieved your life. -- Tennessee Williams
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The show is over. The monkey's dead! -- Tennessee Williams
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His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a ... well, as a place, a building ... a house ... of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can ... well, nest. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) -- Tennessee Williams
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Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation... -- Tennessee Williams
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The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here. -- Tennessee Williams
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But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. -- Tennessee Williams
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I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? -- Tennessee Williams
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath -- Tennessee Williams
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It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody. -- Tennessee Williams
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Like a Cat on a hot tin roof -- Tennessee Williams
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to ... -To lay her cards out on the table. -- Tennessee Williams
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't want realism. I want magic! -- Tennessee Williams
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What's talent but the ability to get away with something? -- Tennessee Williams
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Human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven. -- Tennessee Williams
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I know all about the tyranny of women. -- Tennessee Williams
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going! -- Tennessee Williams
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent -- Tennessee Williams
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It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace. -- Tennessee Williams
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. -- Tennessee Williams
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I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... -- Tennessee Williams
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Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? -- Tennessee Williams
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I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on! -- Tennessee Williams
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing -- Tennessee Williams
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Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. -- Tennessee Williams
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Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive. -- Tennessee Williams
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Things have a way of turning out so badly. -- Tennessee Williams
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Security is a kind of death. -- Tennessee Williams
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A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting. -- Tennessee Williams
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. -- Tennessee Williams
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I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know. -- Tennessee Williams
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It's no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. -- Tennessee Williams
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

--Blanche Dubois -- Tennessee Williams
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He would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season. -- Tennessee Williams
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I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. -- Tennessee Williams
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. -- Tennessee Williams
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out. -- Tennessee Williams
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama. -- Tennessee Williams
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Some things are not forgiveable. 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. -- Tennessee Williams
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She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon. -- Tennessee Williams
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. -- Tennessee Williams
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Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start! -- Tennessee Williams
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. -- Tennessee Williams
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. -- Tennessee Williams
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Everybody is nothing until you love them. -- Tennessee Williams
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To know me is not to love me. At -- Tennessee Williams
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Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! -- Tennessee Williams
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CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table.
GRACE: -Is that an order?
CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.
GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down] -- Tennessee Williams
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The role of benefactor is worse than thankless, it's the role of a victim, Doctor, a sacrificial victim, yes, they want your blood, Doctor, they want your blood on the altar steps of their outraged, outrageous egos! -- Tennessee Williams
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[The Writer silently passes her a pint bottle of whiskey.] Thank you, Mr.
?
WRITER: Chekhov! Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov!
MRS HARDWICKE-MOORE [smiling with the remnants of coquetry]: Thank you, Mr.
Chekhov. -- Tennessee Williams
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Success and failure are equally disastrous. -- Tennessee Williams
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. -- Tennessee Williams
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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. -- Tennessee Williams
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test ... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it. -- Tennessee Williams
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk? -- Tennessee Williams
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Don't you understand? I was PROCURING for him. -- Tennessee Williams
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Possess your soul in patience - you will see! -- Tennessee Williams
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. -- Tennessee Williams
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The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. -- Tennessee Williams
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states ... -- Tennessee Williams
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning. -- Tennessee Williams
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I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat. -- Tennessee Williams
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I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear. -- Tennessee Williams
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. -- Tennessee Williams
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons. -- Tennessee Williams
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A fire smokes the most when you start pouring water on it. -- Tennessee Williams
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And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into ... -- Tennessee Williams
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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Most people's lives - what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death. -- Tennessee Williams
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The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. -- Tennessee Williams
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon? -- Tennessee Williams
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Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! -- Tennessee Williams
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If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace. -- Tennessee Williams
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura
and so goodbye ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find? -- Tennessee Williams
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You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail? -- Tennessee Williams
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He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity. -- Tennessee Williams
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A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. -- Tennessee Williams
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. -- Tennessee Williams
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly. -- Tennessee Williams
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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 ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. -- Tennessee Williams
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people? -- Tennessee Williams
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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. -- Tennessee Williams
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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it! -- Tennessee Williams
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty. -- Tennessee Williams
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Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over. -- Tennessee Williams
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. -- Tennessee Williams
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Big Daddy: Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort. -- Tennessee Williams
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We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears ... -- Tennessee Williams
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Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. -- Tennessee Williams
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Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. -- Tennessee Williams
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. -- Tennessee Williams
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. -- Tennessee Williams
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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. -- Tennessee Williams
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. -- Tennessee Williams
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary -- Tennessee Williams
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -- Tennessee Williams
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. -- Tennessee Williams
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. -- Tennessee Williams
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He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. -- Tennessee Williams
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People go to the movies instead of moving. -- Tennessee Williams
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. -- Tennessee Williams