The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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