Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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