Today's Tennessee Williams' Birthday. What's your favorite quote of his?

Ad to think that I assumed that EVERYONE was going to select 'Whoever you are, I have always relied on the kindness of strangers'.

Jarethan said: "Ad to think that I assumed that EVERYONE was going to select 'Whoever you are, I have always relied on the kindness of strangers'."

Well, that's a stupid thing to do.

"Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else..."

Incredibly inspiring!

"Then suddenly, last summer, Sebastian died."

Don't hang back with the brutes!

Thanks for the quotes.

I have seen only one of his plays on Broadway ( Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange and Christian Slater) and since I am not a resident to the USA, most of my access to his work was mostly thru film adaptations of his work (Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/ Suddenly Last Summer/Night of the Iguana, from my recollection).

brox22 said: "
A bitch is no match for a lady except in a brass bed, honey, and sometimes not even there.

The decline of the Western world began with the invention of the wheel

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

Lead them beside still waters because you know how badly they need still waters
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I do not remember that. Can you tell me what it is from?

"I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all."

I've always loved:

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it".