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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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