All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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