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 WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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