William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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