To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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