The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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