If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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