But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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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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I 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.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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