We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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