When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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