I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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