If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote 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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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