16175. “Sometimes—there’s God—so quickly!” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020
16174. “Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light….” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16173. “I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020
16172. “The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into ever lasting regret if you don’t plan for it!” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020
16170. “Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16168. “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020April 17, 2020
16167. “It’s interesting, isn’t it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16166. “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” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16165. “I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together” ― Tennessee Williams, Collected Stories April 17, 2020
16164. “I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.” ― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth April 17, 2020
16163. “For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers’ hands can reach to pull you down to their level.” ― Tennessee Williams, Collected Stories April 17, 2020
16162. “-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, A Streetcar Named Desire April 17, 2020
16161. “No, truth is something desperate, an’ she’s got it. Believe me, it’s something desperate, an’ she’s got it.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020
16160. “A drinking man’s someone who wants to forget he isn’t still young and believing” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020
16159. “If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16158. “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 April 17, 2020
16157. “Possess your soul in patience – you will see!” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020
16156. “Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn’t love you.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays April 17, 2020
16155. “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.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020
16154. “The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.” ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof April 17, 2020
16153. “Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020
16152. “There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020
16151. “Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie April 17, 2020
16150. “We have to distrust each other. It’s our only defense against betrayal.” ― Tennessee Williams April 17, 2020