I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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 bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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