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“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”
― Tennessee Williams

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
― Tennessee Williams

“The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”
― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote

“It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Imagination, of course, can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“All the neighbors are rattlesnakes. Varmints looking for a chance to slam the door in your face. It’s the same the whole world over.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
― Agatha Christie

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
― Agatha Christie

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
― Agatha Christie

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
― Agatha Christie

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?
--Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
― Agatha Christie

“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage