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 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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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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