I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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