Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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