The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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I 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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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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