A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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 gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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