I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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