I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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