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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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