Quotes from Tennessee Williams

Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation...

Don't! Pity! Your! Self! The wounds of vanity, the many offenses our egos have to endure, being housed in bodies that age and hearts that grow tired, are better accepted with a tolerant smile – like this! – You see?… Otherwise what you become is a bag full of curdled cream – leche mala as we call it! – attractive to nobody, least of all to yourself!

There are no good or bad people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.

I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't ever call me a Polack.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that was it isn't so funny.

The girl who said 'no' — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.

He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway.... So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know what played out is? My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sprout, and-I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed some-body, too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle-a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in! But I guess I was asking, hoping-too much! Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all over...

the human animal is a selfish beast...

I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her— babbling!!

Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.

I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it.

Of coherency, I usually attempt it.

Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start!

you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had, and you've had it.

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion.

life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

Las vidas de todas las personas, ¿qué son sino rastros de escombro... cada día más escombro... más escombro... largos, muy largos rastros de escombros que nada puede limpiar más que la muerte?

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.

To know me is not to love me. At

I don't want realism, I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!

SevdiÄŸin biriyle birlikte yaÅŸamak daha da büyük yaln?zl?k… tamamen yaln?z kalmaktan daha büyük yaln?zl?k! EÄŸer sevdiÄŸin kiÅŸi seni sevmiyorsa…