The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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