Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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