Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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