Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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