I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The 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.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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