1. Ignore reality:
“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic.”
2. Create illusions.
“I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion.”
3. Lying is beneficial.
“I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”
4. Paper lamp shades take years off your life.
“Oh look, we have created enchantment.”
5. Dark is good.
“I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
6. Be flexible.
“I’m very adaptable to circumstances.”
7. Dress well.
“Clothes are my passion.”
8. Ask for what you want.
“Oh, in my youth I excited some admiration. But look at me now! Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be attractive? I was fishing for a complement.”
9. Set limits
“But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”
10. Desire is brutal.
“What you are talking about is desire – just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Straight? What’s ‘straight’? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?”
11. Avoid spiders.
“Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.
Yes, a big spider. That’s where I brought my victims. Yes, I’ve had many meetings with strangers.”
12. Date only Colin Firth types.
“You’re married to a madman. May I speak plainly?… If you’ll forgive me, he’s common… He’s like an animal. He has an animal’s habits. There’s even something subhuman about him. 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. And you – you here waiting for him. Maybe he’ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you, that’s if kisses have been discovered yet. His poker night you call it. This party of apes.”
13. Accept help.
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
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I love the play. I LOVE THE MOVIE. I love the quotes. I love this post.
😉
I love Tennessee Williams.
I love # 3! And, of course, #12.