Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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 don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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