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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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