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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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