We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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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 is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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