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 WILLIAMSI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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