I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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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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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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