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 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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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