You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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