When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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 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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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