Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra:… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
