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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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