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 WILLIAMSThis 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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