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 WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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