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 WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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