Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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