When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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