And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The 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.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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