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 WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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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 object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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