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 WILLIAMSI believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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