Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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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.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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