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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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