I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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?
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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