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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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 all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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