Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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