Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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