Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Blanche: 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!
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love 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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