I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSRevolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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