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 WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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