When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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