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.
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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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