Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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 WILLIAMS -
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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 WILLIAMS