America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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