What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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