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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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