Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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