What 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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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