Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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