Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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