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 WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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