There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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