America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t 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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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