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 WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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