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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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 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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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