Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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 WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical 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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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