The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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 blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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