All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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 was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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 believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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