All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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