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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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Tennessee Williams quote: "Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot..."
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
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
Tennessee Williams quote: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that..."
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for..."
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the..."
I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "People go to the movies instead of moving."
People go to the movies instead of moving. Tennessee Williams
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
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my present self to myself as I used to be! Gutman: That's the furthest departure a man could make! Tennessee Williams
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
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
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
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
Tennessee Williams quote: "For time is the longest distance between two places."
For time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Time is the longest distance between two places."
Time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams

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