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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without 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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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