I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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