Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe name of a person you love is more than language.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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