We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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