I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Some 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.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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