The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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