How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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