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 WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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