When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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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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