Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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