Tennessee Williams

Film & Theater USA 1911 – 1983 98 quotes

Southern Gothic master of A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams crafted quotable lines on desire, decay, and illusion.

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

We are all of us in a trauma, and we are all of us in a dream.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A Streetcar Named Desire 1947

Time is the longest distance between two places.

The Glass Menagerie 1944

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1955

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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We all have our little tricks to make us feel important.

Suddenly, Last Summer 1959

Security is a kind of death.

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The world is a pretty foul place, and somebody's got to clean it up.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1955

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

The Glass Menagerie 1944

I don't want realism. I want magic!

A Streetcar Named Desire 1947

The only way to be a good writer is to be a good person.

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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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A poet's work is to make others feel what he feels.

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The future is a thing that has to be earned.

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

The Night of the Iguana 1961

Ugly people are not allowed to be proud.

A Streetcar Named Desire 1947

The only thing that can save us is love.

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I have a great fear of being alone.

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We're all trapped in our own little cages.

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