You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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