Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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