Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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