The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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In 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.
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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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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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