We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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