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.
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 scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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