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 WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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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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