Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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