The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Physical 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!
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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