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 WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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