Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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To be free is to have achieved your 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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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