All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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 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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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