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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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 your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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