We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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