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 WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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