In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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