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 WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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