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 WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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 lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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