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Famous Tennessee Williams Quotes
“Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“I must endure & endure & still endure.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: 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
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“I am more faithful than I intended to be!”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.”
Source: The Night of the Iguana
“Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.”
Source: Camino Real
“If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.”
“Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams