We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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