We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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 an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I 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.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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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!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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