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.
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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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