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 WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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