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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.

Tennessee Williams

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Arrangement Economic Face Let Many Marriage Way
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All Cruel Frankness Paragon People Themselves
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Gave Life Meddling Much Private Psychoanalyst Too Visit
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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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