All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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