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 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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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