You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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