Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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