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 WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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