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 WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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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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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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