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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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