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 WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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