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 WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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