And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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