Tennessee Williams Quotes About Heart
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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.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" 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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There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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