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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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