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.
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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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