The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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