Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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