The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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