You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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