Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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