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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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