If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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