All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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