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 WILLIAMSThere is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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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?
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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