We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity
is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
Camino Real. |
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie. |
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie. |
I didn't go to the moon, I went much further — for time
is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie. |
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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage.
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without
it.
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy.
BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that
a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that
nature relaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out
an’ death’s the other.
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
I'm not young and vulnerable any more.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude
remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like
one, moves like one, talks like one!
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the
other hand, men lose interest quickly.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep
a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
Sometimes — there's God — so quickly.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
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
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire. |
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our
own skins, for life!
Tennessee Williams
Orpheus Descending. |
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
The Rose Tatoo. |
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it
isn't so funny.
Tennessee Williams
Self-interview, in the Observer April 1957. |
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.
Tennessee Williams
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. |
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