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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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