In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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 don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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