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 WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Deliberate 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.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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