Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I 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.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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