Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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