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The show is over. The monkey's dead! — Tennessee Williams

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. — Tennessee Williams

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you. — Tennessee Williams

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams

Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves. — Tennessee Williams

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. — Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. — Paul Mooney

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life. — Tennessee Williams

She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon. — Tennessee Williams

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. — Tennessee Williams

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. — Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent — Tennessee Williams

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. — Tennessee Williams

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — Tennessee Williams

...the human animal is a selfish beast... — Tennessee Williams

If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace. — Tennessee Williams

Success and failure are equally disastrous. — Tennessee Williams

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out. — Tennessee Williams

We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears ... — Tennessee Williams

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. — Tennessee Williams

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. — Tennessee Williams

Savannah is a ... lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets ... There are legendary scenes ... to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams. — Rosemary Daniell

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk? — Tennessee Williams

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams

Of coherency, I usually attempt it. — Tennessee Williams

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it. — Tennessee Williams

Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego. — Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion. — Tennessee Williams

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace. — Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams

He would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season. — Tennessee Williams

Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ... — Tennessee Williams

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance. — Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. — Tennessee Williams

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. — Andrea Martin

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished ... — Tennessee Williams

I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it. — Tennessee Williams

Luck is believing your lucky. — Tennessee Williams

Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me. — Tennessee Williams

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. — Tennessee Williams

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams — James Grissom

The carrion birds have tried to peck out my eyes and my tongue and my mind, but they've never been able to get at my heart. — Tennessee Williams

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. — Tennessee Williams

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true! — Tennessee Williams

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of. — Tennessee Williams

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II — Tennessee Williams

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. — Tennessee Williams

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' — Ruth Rendell

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! — Tennessee Williams

Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind — Tennessee Williams

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. — Tennessee Williams

I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her - babbling!! — Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless. — Tennessee Williams

[Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.] — Tennessee Williams

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die. — Tennessee Williams

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai

A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you. — Tennessee Williams

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature — Tennessee Williams

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. — Tennessee Williams

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. — Tennessee Williams

We've had this date with each other from the beginning. — Tennessee Williams

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats. — Tennessee Williams

Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost. — Tennessee Williams

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light ... — Tennessee Williams

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. — Tennessee Williams

He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. — Tennessee Williams

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. — Tennessee Williams

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Tennessee Williams

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... — Tennessee Williams

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! — Tennessee Williams

Things have a way of turning out so badly. — Tennessee Williams

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams

Sometimes - there's God - so quickly! — Tennessee Williams

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than
broken down. — Tennessee Williams

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me. — Hank Williams Jr.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. — Gloria Swanson

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing — Tennessee Williams

The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. — Tennessee Williams

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. — Tennessee Williams

Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start! — Tennessee Williams

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door. — Tennessee Williams

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! — Tennessee Williams

Big Daddy: Ignorance - of morality - is a comfort. — Tennessee Williams

Everybody is nothing until you love them. — Tennessee Williams

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. — Tennessee Williams

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. — Tennessee Williams

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. — Tennessee Williams

He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside — Tennessee Williams

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. — Tennessee Williams

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity. — Tennessee Williams

I know all about the tyranny of women. — Tennessee Williams

Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are! — Tennessee Williams

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? — Tennessee Williams