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 WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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