For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . — 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
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet,… — 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
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — 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
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole… — 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
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…” — 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
