Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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