The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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