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 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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I 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.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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