The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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