It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of 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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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