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 WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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