We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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