Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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