Author of quotes: Tennessee Williams

Everything could be different, but would have the same meaning.

Life continues after the death of all the perfect ideas about it.

If individuals behaved as entire peoples, they would long ago put on a straitjacket.

No one will ever know the other. We are all sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement in their own skins.

What else to do in this life, as not to cling hands for anyone or for anything... for anyone or for anything, to cling with both hands so that the knuckles have fingers crunched!

At the mercy of a beautiful appearance is the worst thing a girl can accomplish!

Only one I wanted you to imitate my father.
- What?
- How he always cared about his appearance. He never allowed himself to carelessness.

- Most young men find adventure in their work.
- Most young people don't work in the store.
The world is full of young people who work in shops and offices, and factories.
And all of them find adventure in their work?
- Or find, or do without them. Not so crazy about adventures.
- The natural instinct of men is to be a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and the store none of these instincts may not be.

- I go to the movies because I like adventure. Adventure is what I wipe at work, so I go to the movies.
- But, Tom, you go to the movies too often!
- I like a lot of adventure.

When a person has some small flaw, such as you, it enhances its other side to more than compensate for it.

Appeal to the creative imagination, imagination, to the high purposes of art - all this serves one purpose: to disguise the imperfection of man.

Any real feeling between two people is too rare to be normal.

I don't recognize realism. I - for magic. Yes, Yes, magic! I want to take it to the people. Force them to see facts not as they are. Yes, I do not speak the truth, not how it is, and how it should be in life. And if one sinned, then I'll be damned for this sin - I have nothing against...

- Now!.. I like it when a woman laughs heartily.
- And if all my heart is crying?
- I like everything a woman does from the heart.