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 WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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