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 WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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