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 WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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