I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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