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 WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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