I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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