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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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 sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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