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 WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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