Tennessee Williams Quotes

“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:women

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:heart memory

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:men beauty

“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:power money democracy

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:beauty

“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:world loneliness

“I go to the movies because — I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:work adventure

“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recours to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:work

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:memory music

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

topic:age money

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