Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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