A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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