Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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