There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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