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 WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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