I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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