Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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