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 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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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