I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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