I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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