All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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