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 WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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