And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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