I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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