Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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