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 WILLIAMSWhen 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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?
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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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