If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams More Quotes by Tennessee Williams More Quotes From Tennessee Williams 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. Tennessee Williams envy differences sick Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart Tennessee Williams rose heart world Like a cat on a hot tin roof. Tennessee Williams tin cat hot Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. Tennessee Williams cutting nice girl Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! Tennessee Williams hunters play men Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. Tennessee Williams sentimental play memories But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. Tennessee Williams memorable character long Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace! Tennessee Williams alcohol light drinking Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think. Tennessee Williams sincerity sorrow thinking Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! Tennessee Williams block names children Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial. Tennessee Williams show-me superficial sorrow People go to the movies instead of moving. Tennessee Williams menagerie people moving Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love. Tennessee Williams being-in-love lap baby I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest. Tennessee Williams home mean thinking -You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table. Tennessee Williams simple sides thinking In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. Tennessee Williams hate love-you years A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. Tennessee Williams blow men death It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. Tennessee Williams terrible dog loss Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. Tennessee Williams glasses break matter Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other. Tennessee Williams cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof liquor way
