We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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