We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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