What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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