I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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