There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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 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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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