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?
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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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