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“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“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 A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”

Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Source: Suddenly Last Summer

“Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart…”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Source: Battle of Angels

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

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“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

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Source: Collected Stories