All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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