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 WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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