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 WILLIAMSPhysical 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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