Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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