I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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