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 WILLIAMSI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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