It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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