The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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