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 WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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