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 WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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