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 WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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