How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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