All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for 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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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What 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.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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