Tennessee Williams: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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!”

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

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”

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

“Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!”

“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”

“Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!”

“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”