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 bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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