Tennessee Williams Quotes

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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Between Comfortable Consequence Leg Look Made Orchid Something Spread Woman
The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Language Love More Name Person
All good art is an indiscretion.
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All Art Good
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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Been Cruelty Deliberate Ever Forgiveness Guilty Most never One Opinion Thing
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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Curve Heart Human Line Mountain Road Straight Street Through
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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All Creature Life Sense Work
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Beautiful Give Grace People Such Weak
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Can From Honest Man Not Spearte Write Wrote
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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All Born Come Die From Giant Live Mark Question Refer Shadow Us Where
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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Another Character Desperate Easier Found Frightened Hysteria Identity Life Person Reach Upon Verge
He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Appearance Disguise Give Illusion Peasant Truth
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Enthusiasm Important Life Most Thing
When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Broken Death Disorder Go Life Period Refuse Some Unhappiness Write
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Action Bulb Can Light More Naked Remark Rude Stand Vulgar
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Choose Friend Life Make Nade Party We
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Again Devote Lost Love Monosyilable Opposition Raed Return Short Slip Time Write
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Artist Began Block Explain Explanation Fancy Force Itself Life Method More Put Rather Significant Unsatisfactory
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Brother Dangerous Human Inflammatory Most Tongue Word Work
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Cruelty Deliberate Only Unforgivable
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Can Money Old Without You Young
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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Devil Driven Hand Heart Mouth Touch
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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Cloudy Correspond Distortion Each Ego Look Other Own See Through
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Face Fire Out Put
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Blurt Contain Dissimulation Instant Lie One Plan Speech Spontaneously
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Also Hypocrite Liar Only Thing Worse
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Do Not Magic Realism Want
Some things are not forgiveable.
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Forgivable Something

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