Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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