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 WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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