The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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