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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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