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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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