There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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