There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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