What 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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 try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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