We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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