When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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