Tennessee Williams quotes - page 3

Things have a way of turning out so badly. (Tennessee Williams)
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! View quote
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Luck is believing you're lucky. View quote
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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? View quote
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Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! View quote
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You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God! View quote
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Go then! Then go to the moon - you selfish dreamer! View quote
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People go to the movies instead of moving. View quote
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Time is the longest distance between two places. View quote
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I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? View quote
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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)
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. View quote
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. View quote
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Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door. View quote
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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! View quote
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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 theof life is--all--over.... View quote
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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. View quote
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I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less - freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns... View quote
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We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about. View quote
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You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions! View quote
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I took that horrible novel back to the library - yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them - BUT I WON'T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no! (Tennessee Williams)
Eternity!-Didn't it give you the cold shivers? View quote
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I wish you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. 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. They're common as - weeds, but - you - well, you're - Blue Roses! View quote
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If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. View quote
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. View quote
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