The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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