The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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