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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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