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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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