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 WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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