When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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 name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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