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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Don’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?
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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