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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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 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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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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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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