Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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