All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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