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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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