All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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