A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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