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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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