Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
