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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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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