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 WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I 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.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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