We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Don’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?
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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