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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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