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Quote by Tennessee Williams

“We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.”

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American playwright, renowned for his profound psychological portrayals and unique dramatic style. His notable works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'. more

“Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they've bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert.”

Betrayal Spy Lying Games

Book:The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Source: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

“Never trust a promise”

Betrayal Saddness

Book:If I Could Fly

Source: If I Could Fly

“Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it. "You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly. "I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong.”

Justice Betrayal Achilles Own Payback Comeuppance Just Desserts Bean Owned Achilles De Flandres Suriyawong Enderverse Pwn Julian Delphinki Osc Pwned Shadow Saga

Book:Shadow Puppets

Source: Shadow Puppets

“I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.”

Betrayal Matt King Brian Speer Joane

Book:The Descendants

Source: The Descendants

“Friends are forever but life is full of disapointments”

Friends Betrayal Disloyal

Author:Trinity J. Eidsness

“Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.”

Betrayal

Author:Anna Fels

“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.”

Life Happiness Life Quotes Worry Focus Future Living Life And Living Happy Living Life Living Life To The Fullest Living In The Present Living Now

Author:Roy Bennett

“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.”

Consequence Tragedy Betrayal Invisible Griffin

Book:The Invisible Man

Source: The Invisible Man

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