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 WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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