There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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