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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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