All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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