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 WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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