Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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 your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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