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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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