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121 " And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before! "
― Tennessee Williams
122 " Suskunluğun yasaları işlemiyor. Belleğinde ya da imgeleminde üreyip duran bir şeyler varsa suskunluğun yasaları işlemiyor, tıpkı bir kapıyı kapamak, yanmakta olan bir evin yandığını unutmak için anahtarı kilitte döndürmek gibi bir şey bu. Ama yangınla yüzleşmemek yangını söndürmüyor ki. Bir konuda susmak o konunun boyutlarını büyütüyor sadece. Suskunlukta büyüyor, ürüyor o şey, kötücül oluyor… "
― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
123 " Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's--hate.... "
― Tennessee Williams , Suddenly Last Summer
124 " America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. "
125 " Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart... "
― Tennessee Williams , A Streetcar Named Desire
126 " True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway.... So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know what played out is? My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sprout, and-I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed some-body, too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle-a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in! But I guess I was asking, hoping-too much! Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite. "
127 " Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me. "
128 " I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack. "
129 " [Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.] "
130 " You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!--and death was the only icebox where you could keep it.... "
131 " He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! [...] Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is – Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! "
132 " Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years! "
133 " I don't want realism. I want magic! "
134 " We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. "
135 " Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! "
136 " I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places "
― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie
137 " 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. "
138 " Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families "
139 " Everybody is nothing until you love them. "
― Tennessee Williams , The Rose Tattoo
140 " You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. "