I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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