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 WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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