America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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