A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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