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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 Williams

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 WILLIAMS

Antecedents Believe Choice Circumstances Hero Individual Influences Necessity Right Taken Themselves Uncomprehended Villian Way Wrong
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Block Call Cemeteries Country Desire Get Name One People Person Ride Six Streetcar Take Told Transfer
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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

All Beauty Grow Heart Mind Pass Physical Possession Richness Spirit Tenderness Think Transitory Year
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Day Posthumous Rest Stop Work
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Always Apparent Back Been Complete Failure Negative Night Out Play Puch Review Send Success Typewriter Very Work
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Door House Liar Lie Lock Magie Through
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Anton Candle Dance Must Quick Tasteth Wick Youth
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Call Future Important Perhaps Possible Scare Thing
I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Expose Have Human Myself Stage Through Unless Weakness
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Condition Conventional Him Only Right Unavoidable Work
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Arrangement Economic Face Let Many Marriage Way
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Do Not Magic Realism Want
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Cage Heart Keep One Liner Prayer Wild
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

City Clevland Country Else Everwhere Only Three
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

All Bases Concept Delinquent God Mythology Senile Theory Western Whole
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Bison Competition Condition Desire Distortion Ego Fear Our Ow Relation Such Vanity

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.

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