I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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 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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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