A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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