The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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