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 WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started 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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