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 WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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 believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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