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 WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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