A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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 are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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