The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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