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 WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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