We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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