I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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 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.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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