Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Blanche: 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!
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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 see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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