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 WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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