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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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