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 WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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