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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Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?

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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

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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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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-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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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

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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