You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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 Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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