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 WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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