All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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