I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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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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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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