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 WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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