Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I 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.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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