Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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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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