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 WILLIAMSWhomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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