Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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