I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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