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 WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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