All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are 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 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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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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