When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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