A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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!”
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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