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 WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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