I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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