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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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