All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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