This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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