The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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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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What 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?
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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