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 WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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 cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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