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• All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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  God, Atheism, Mythology

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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  Fighting, Howl, Persons

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

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  Ruins, Matter, No Matter What

  Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.221, Yale University Press

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• It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

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  Lying, Speech, Instant

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Heart, Mean, People

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• Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

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  Struggle, Mean, Salvation

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

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  Real, Two, Levels

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.317, New Directions Publishing

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• 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!

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  Block, Desire, Fields

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 1 (1947)

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

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  Tennessee Williams (1995). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.131, Heinemann

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• To be free is to have achieved your life.

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  Life, Live By, Life Changing

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

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  Believe, Artist, May

  "Notebooks".

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• All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

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  Creativity, Creative, Creative Work

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Two-character Play”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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  Taken, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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  Teaching, Writing, Men

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

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  Glasses, Matter, Break

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

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  Baby, Wine, Glasses

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• All good art is an indiscretion.

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  Art, Art Is, Good Art

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

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  Games, People, Sick

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

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  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

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  Doors, Cards, Credit

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.8, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

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  Heart, Drunk, Body

  Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich (2000). “Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

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  Way, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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• The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

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  Differences, Envy, Sick

  Tennessee Williams (1972). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

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  Writing, Theatre, Weakness

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

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  Writing, World, Pleasure

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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