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 WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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