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 WILLIAMSBlanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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