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 WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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