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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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