Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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