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 WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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