Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have 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 you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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