A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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 believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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