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 WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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