Tennessee Williams quotes - page 6

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you. (Tennessee Williams)
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
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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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I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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It's interesting, isn't it?... the chandelier... it reminds me of mushroom soup. (Tennessee Williams)
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.''
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I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
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Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even!
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Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart...
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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.
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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.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
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I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times.
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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)
I didn't go to the moon, I went much further-for time is the longest distance between two places.
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Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.
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She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments...
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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
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