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 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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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 your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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