Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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?
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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