Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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