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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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 “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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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