A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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